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"Native to all 100 counties in North Carolina, this odd fruit had been all but forgotten. A family in Watauga County intends to change that." As pawpaws are difficult to transport, they don't translate well as for industrial production. Susan Owen has done much research on pawpaws and grows both native and hybrid species.
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Mitchel County artist Nathan Favors carves bowls from irregular growth in trees known as burls. Favors works with discarded lumber trees, lost either through logging or development.
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Doug Munroe is owner of Waterfall Farm. near Warrensville. In 2006, his Vermont raised neighbor noticed Doug's abundance of sugar maples and suggested he experiment. In 2010, he started full-time in making syrup.
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Two decades before Rachel Carson became a pioneer for the environmentalist movement, she laid the foundation for marine biologists through her work at a trio of islands south of Beaufort. In addition to the landmark Silent Spring is the perhaps lesser known first book, Under the Sea Wind, inspired by her experiences at Carrot, Town Marsh, and Bird Shoal.
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Living at Linville Gorge’s cliff are plants revealing ancient ecosystems long unknown and trees a retired Appalachian State professor believes are a millennium old. Support for his perspective of cliffs, which include their ecological as well as geological aspects, is a profile of the Table Mountain Pine, in addition to plants like Rock Tripe Lichen and Mountain Golden Heather.
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Linville Gorge; Linville Gorge--Description and travel; Forest ecology; Forest management; Cliff ecology; Forest management--controlled burns--tree populations; Ecosystems; Michaux, André, 1746-1802; Lichens; Linville Gorge--plants--Mountain Golden Heather; Southern Appalachia--endemic trees--Table Mountain Pine
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34833
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Larry Smith, Grand Champion of the 2017 National Christmas Tree Contest, will be choosing the tree that is set up in the White House for 2018. His farm is located in Avery County, and he has been growing Christmas trees since the 1970’s, turning it into a lucrative family business.
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Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture has paired up with the Watauga County Public Library to create a seed library. Community members send in seeds so that community members can borrow up to 10 seed packets per season with a promise that they will return the new generation of seeds at next harvest. This has become a trend throughout North Carolina, with success at bringing back certain species back to the forefront of agriculture.
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34888
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Every year since 2006, the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources hosts a week-long volunteer event in order to keep track of the number of hellbenders in rivers. Hellbenders are large aquatic salamanders that have recently seen falling populations, yet are good indicators for clean water and strong populations of other aquatic species.
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Boone attracts a number of visitors each year, but more often than not, the reasons these tourists come to Boone is to enjoy nature. Author and Boone resident, Leigh Ann Henion believes that Boone’s personality lies in its precipitation, for precipitation constantly shapes and changes the landscape.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 83 Issue 8, January 2016,
p56, 58, 60,62-63, il, por, map
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Botanist and part-time goatherd, Jamey Donaldson, started herding on Roan Mountain in 2008 in an effort to preserve the naturally occurring balds. Balds are treeless areas found on mountains, but due to the absences of goats and other grazing animals, the existence of such balds are threatened by tree growth. Donaldson discusses the importance of preserving balds and his efforts to bring goats back to these areas on Roan Mountain.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 83 Issue 11, April 2016,
p174-178, 180, 182, il, por, map
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The author recounts her own encounter with a coyote before continuing on with this piece about coexisting with one of North Carolina’s growing populations of natural predators. It is now confirmed that coyote populations are present in all 100 counties in North Carolina
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The Banner Elk Winery, which opened in 2006, has, at 4,800 feet, the highest vineyard in the Eastern United States. The winery is co-owned by Richard Wolfe, Angelo Accetturo and Pete and Michelle Gerukos. Wolfe, who directs the Applied Science and Research Program at Appalachian State University, received a grant to start a vineyard at 4,800 feet. At first people laughed, but there are now thirty-two vineyards growing cold-hardy grapes in Avery and Watauga counties which the winery uses. The winery has been awarded a number of medals in competitions, such as the 2013 International Eastern Wine Competition in Sonoma County, California.
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Established in 1981, Beech Mountain is, at 5,500 feet, the highest town east of the Rocky Mountains. Our State Magazine features it in the Tar Heel Town of the Month section.
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Elkin, located in Surry County, is featured in OUR STATE's Tar Heel Town of the Month section.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 3, Aug 2012,
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At Biltmore Estate in Asheville, most of the organic features are purely for presentation. But some of the plots of sunflowers, soybeans, corn, and clover are there to entice animals to grace the grounds.
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